University Prof. Dr. Cristina SCHERRER-SCHAUB

University Prof. Dr. Cristina SCHERRER-SCHAUB
Addresses in Residence :
13, chemin du Trabandan
1006 - LAUSANNE
tel. & voice-mail : 0041-21-312 15 44
10, rue des Beaux Arts
75006 - PARIS
tel. & voice-mail : 0033-(0)1- 44 27 00 92
Present Positions
Full Professor (Directeur d'Études) at the École Pratique des
Hautes Études, Paris, France
Chair of History of Indian Buddhism
Professor Extraord. ad personam at the University of
Lausanne, Switzerland (part-time)
Elizabeth de Boer Chair of Tibetan and Buddhist Studies
Indian & Buddhist Studies, University of Lausanne
Indian Studies, University of Fribourg
Doctoral Studies in Analytical Philosophy and Artificial
Intelligence, University of Fribourg & Dalle Molle Institute,
Lugano (joint program with Stanford University and MIT,
Cambridge)
Law studies, University of Bern
Western Philosophy, University of Padova, Italy
Western Philosophy and Mathematical Logic, University of
Fribourg
1999 → Full Professor EPHE, Paris
1998 → Professor Extraord. University of Lausanne
2003 Visiting Professor University of Oxford
2000
Visiting Professor ICABS, Tokyo
1993 - 1998
Research Professor Swiss National Foundation of Scientific
Research
1993 - 1998
Privat-Docent University of Lausanne
1990 Dott. Litt. in Buddhist Studies (Philosophy & Philology)
Research Scholar Swiss National Foundation of Scientific
Research
Education
1977-1984
1975-1977
1972-1974
1967-1972
Career History
1991-1993
1978-1981
1972
Lic. Phil. (Western Philosophy & Mathematical
logic)
Career-related Activities
Survey of Buddhist Remains (Ancient Manuscripts, Inscriptions & Monuments)
2010
2009
2007
2006
2004
2005
2003
2002
2001
1999
2000
1998
1993-1997
Field work in Western and Northern Tibet
Field work in Himachal Pradesh, India
Field work in Bihar, India
Field work in Kinnaur and Spiti, India
Field work in Northern Bactria, Usbekistan
Field work in Java, Indonesia
Field work in Spiti, Lahul and Kulu/Kangra, India
Field work in China, Dunhuang (Dunhuang Institute) and
Xinjiang (Archæological Institute, Urumchi)
Field work in Central Tibet
Field work in Ancient Gandhāra and Swāt, North Pakistan
Field work in Tabo, Spiti, India
Charges within Scientific Institutions
● Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Philologisch
Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Wien,
● Advisory Member of the Executive Commitee of the CHWH/Cirdis, University
of Vienna and Austrian Academy of Sciences
● Scientific Collaboration with the CHWH-sub-project «Inscriptions»
● External Member of the Arbeitskreis für tibetische und buddhistische Studien,
University of Vienna
● Member of the Scientific Committee of the Institut d‘Études Indiennes, Collège de
France, Paris
● Member of the Scientific Committee of the Institut d'Études tibétaines, Collège de
France, Paris
● Member of the UMR7528 «Mondes iranien et indien» CNRS/EPHE, Paris
● Member of the UMR 8546 «Archéologie d'Orient et d'Occident» CNRS/École
Normale Supérieure, Paris
● Member of the Scientific Committee of «Fragile Palm Leaves : a Project for the
Preservation of Buddhist Manuscripts in Thailand», Bangkok
● Member of the Scientifc Board of the Société Asiatique, Paris
● Former Secretary-General of the International Association of Tibetan Studies
(2003-2010)
● President of the International Association of Buddhist Studies
Editorial Charges
● Former Co-Editor in-Chief (1998-2006) of the Journal of the International Association
of Buddhist Studies
● Former Editor in-Chief (2000-2008) of the Journal Asiatique, Paris
● Member of the Board of Editors of :
Buddhist Studies Review UK, London
Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Vienna
Journal Asiatique, Paris
Rivista di Studi Sudasiatici, Firenze-Roma
Wisdom Publication, USA
Selected Publications (2004 →)
Books
● Richard Gombrich & Cristina Scherrer-Schaub Buddhist Studies. Delhi, Motilal
Banarsidass, 2008
● Cristina Scherrer-Schaub & Paul Harrison Tabo Studies III. A Catalogue of the Manuscripts
Collection of Tabo Monastery. Volume I, Roma, IsIAO, 2009 [Serie Orientale Roma
CIII.1]
Books in print
● Cristina Scherrer-Schaub (Author) Tabo Studies III. A Catalogue of the Manuscripts
Collection of
CIII.2]
Tabo Monastery. Volume II, Roma, IsIAO
[Serie Orientale Roma
● Cristina Scherrer-Schaub (Editor) Old Tibetan Studies Dedicated to the Memory of R. E.
Emmerick, Leiden, Brill, 2010 [Proceedings of the International IATS Seminar, Oxford
September 2003]
● Helmut Krasser & Cristina Scherrer-Schaub (Ed.) Cultural Flows across the Western
Himalayas New Delhi-Vienna, IIAS/OUP & Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2010
[Proceedings of the Shimla Conference April 2009)
● Anne Chayet & Cristina Scherrer-Schaub with the collaboration of J.-L. Achard et F.
Robin (Eds.) Édition, éditions : l'écrit au Tibet, évolution et devenir» München, Indus
Verlag, 2010 [Actes du colloque Paris 28-31 mai 2008]
● J.-P. Drège, G.-J. Pinault, C. Scherrer-Schaub & P. Will (Eds.) Paul Pelliot (1878-1945) De
l'histoire à la légende. Paris, Collège de France, 2011 [Actes du Colloque International,
2-3 octobre 2008, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres-Collège de France]
Articles
● «Copier, interpréter, transformer ou des modes de la diffusion des Écritures et de l'écrit
dans le bouddhisme indien», in : Gérard Colas et Gerdi Gerschheimer (dir.) Écrire et
transmettre en Inde classique. Paris, EFEO, 2009, [Études thématiques, 23], pp. 151-172
● «Scribes and Painters on the Road. Inquiry into Image and Text in Indian Buddhism and
its Transmission to Central Asia and Tibet» , in: Anupa Pande (Ed.) The Art of Central Asia
and the Indian Subcontinent in Cross-cultural Perspective. New Delhi, National Museum
Institute / Aryan Books International, 2008, pp. 29-40
● «Immortality extolled with reason» Philosophy and Politics in Nāgārjuna», in : B.
Kellner, H. Krasser et al. Eds. Pramāṇakīrtiḥ. Papers dedicated to Ernst Steinkellner. Wien,
ATBS Uni Wien, 2007, Part 2, pp. 757-793
● «Revendications et recours hiérarchique : contribution à l'histoire de
Śa cu
sous
administration tibétaine» , in : Jean-Pierre Drège (avec la collaboration d'Olivier Venture)
Études de Dunhuang et Turfan Genève, Droz, 2007 [École Pratique des Hautes Études,
Sciences historiques et philologiques, II Hautes Études Orientales, Extrême-orient 6], pp.
257-326
● «De lui dont les ‹Trois océans ont de leurs flots abreuvé les montures …› Tout ce que
l'histoire du bouddhisme doit à l'oeuvre de Sylvain Lévi», in : Lyne Bansat-Boudon et
Roland Lardinois (Ed.) Sylvain Lévi (1863-1935) Études indiennes, Histoire sociale. Turhout,
Brepols, 2007, pp. 173-190
● Cristina Scherrer-Schaub & George Bonani (ETH, Zürich) «Establishing a Typology of
the Old Tibetan Manuscripts. A Multidisciplinary Approach» in :The Cultural History of
Western Tibet. Recent Research from the China Tibetology Research Center and the University of
Vienna. Beijing-Vienna, 2008, pp. 299-337 [newly edited with Chinese partial translation]
Articles in print
● «Considérations sur le travail de traduction et d'édition des textes indiens au Tibet». in :
Actes du colloque «Édition, éditions : l'écrit au Tibet, évolution et devenir» Paris 28-31 mai 2008.
München, Indus Verlag, 2010
● «Le roi indo-grec Ménandre discuta-t-il avec les philosophes bouddhistes?», in : Actes du
colloque (september 2009) « INTERNATIONAL UNESCO SYMPOSIUM: "Intercultural
encounters in the Hellenized Orient"», Hellenic National Commission for Unesco, Athens,
2010
● «Tibet : an Archæology of the Written», in : Old Tibetan Studies Dedicated to the Memory of
R. E. Emmerick, Leiden, Brill, 2010 = Proceedings of the International IATS Seminar, Oxford
September 2003.
● «Lieux et écrits à découvrir : le Tibet à l'époque de Pelliot», in : Drège, Pinault, ScherrerSchaub & Will Paul Pelliot (1878-1945) De l'histoire à la légende. Paris, Collège de France,
2011 [Actes du Colloque International, 2-3 octobre 2008, Académie des Inscriptions et
Belles-Lettres-Collège de France]
Kurt Tropper & Cristina Scherrer-Schaub
● «On Epigraphic Palimpsests and similar Phenomena Some notes on Tibetan Wall
Inscriptions» In : Helmut Krasser and Cristina Scherrer-Schaub (Ed.) Cultural Flows across
the Western Himalayas New Delhi-Vienna, IIAS/OUP & Austrian Academy of Sciences,
2010
Fait à Paris le 20 mai 2010
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